For some reason I don't feel like uploading new work to my blog anymore, maybe it's because I'm waiting until I have a proper website to show my new stuff. Anyway, here is one new thing I've finished. I have 2 others from the summer done but I'm really waiting to finish the third so I can upload like a 3 pack. You wont be seeing a whole lot of concept work for a while (maybe a good thing?) so here is the first of my thesis pieces. It's about the concept of someones digital identity replacing their physical. Internet based identities have always perplexed me. It's easy to assume it's more detrimental, that people are uploading a fraudulent identity and masking themselves from the real world. But the opposite is equally true, where it's also much easier to show who you truly are online than it is in the real world. So this is what I wanted to explore with the piece, how the line is blurred. I hope it reads decently, I could go on about every nuance and metaphor in the narrative but I already paid you 50$ to look at my blog and your probably not reading this.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Digital Identity
For some reason I don't feel like uploading new work to my blog anymore, maybe it's because I'm waiting until I have a proper website to show my new stuff. Anyway, here is one new thing I've finished. I have 2 others from the summer done but I'm really waiting to finish the third so I can upload like a 3 pack. You wont be seeing a whole lot of concept work for a while (maybe a good thing?) so here is the first of my thesis pieces. It's about the concept of someones digital identity replacing their physical. Internet based identities have always perplexed me. It's easy to assume it's more detrimental, that people are uploading a fraudulent identity and masking themselves from the real world. But the opposite is equally true, where it's also much easier to show who you truly are online than it is in the real world. So this is what I wanted to explore with the piece, how the line is blurred. I hope it reads decently, I could go on about every nuance and metaphor in the narrative but I already paid you 50$ to look at my blog and your probably not reading this.
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I've been wondering where you've been haven't seen some of your beautiful work in awhile and this is refreshing to come back too! It really has a great sense atmosphere as well as design. It does well with it's contrast and I really like the fact that the pink and black mix so well with one another. You have a great sense of color and it shows perfectly in your work.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we sometimes get so comfortable with presenting ourselves online that we forget how to in real life. It's important that people know and understand how to convey themselves in what ever environment that they are in as opposed to being efficient in only one. That's probably the hardest thing for an artist to do (or at least that I see often) is taking their work from online or a sketchbook and presenting it to employers, clients, or whom ever out fear of rejection. However that is a VERY important part of learning and probably the best thing a person can do is constantly show their work to who ever will see it. It's how you build an audience.
No one ever paid me $50 to visit your blog and yes I read your statement. I came here because I think it's exciting getting to see your illustrations. Thanks for posting this finally, it's great getting a better look. I'm glad you decided to go in and finish the digital version of it. :)
ReplyDeleteIm really enjoying this new piece, I was wondering if you painted the figure in the foreground by hand and then scanned it in? Or is the entire piece done digitally?
ReplyDeleteThanks Josh, a lot of the things in the background and in her dress are from a watercolor under-painting and some of the stuff in the background I used some textures I scanned in. The whole piece is mostly digital, i'd say 90% and the figure was all painted digitally.
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